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 Put a little "hip" in your "sip." With this handy little book, cocktails at home have never been more exciting to make, to drink, or to serve. Each refreshing drink features exotic and lipsmacking combinations of ripened fruits, herbs, flavorings, and spirits created by an acclaimed master mixologist -- for tastes that are modern, intriguing, and really delicious. Guava Cosmos and the Vermont vodka martini, spiked with a secret ingredient, give a new twist to cocktails at six. Welcome guests to a dinner party with a Mr. 820, a martini as smooth as James Bond himself, or offer Avocado Daiquiris to revelers at a casual barbecue. Rustle up a bowl of passion fruit - infused citrus punch for and exciting Sunday brunch. Then shake up some drinks minus the alcohol, plus all the verve, and the designated drivers will thank you. Also included are recipes for fruit purees and infused vodkas that will quickly transform an ordinary cocktail into a drink that will energize the host and the partygoer alike. Add a couple of the author's signature garnishes like lollipop rims, citrus twists, and berry picks and your next party will be a fresh fruit and flavor cocktail revolution! "Hip Sips" is available for purchase at Mint/820. |
Mint/820 is now offering this three course PRIXFIX MENU on Monday through Thursdays! The menu will be available @ Mint: 5pm till close & @ 820: 6:30pm - 10pm mint's signature spicy caesar salad with manchego cheese or ceviche with mango, cilantro and green apples and tortilla chips or soup of the day entrees orechiette pasta with shredded braised beef shoulder, braised greens, tomatoes, garlic confit and a chili demi-glace or pozole, calton farms pork shoulder braised with hominy, tomatoes, house salt pork, served with red beans and rice or sole sautéed and topped with wilted herbs and greens served with butternut squash risotto and grilled brocolini dessert green tea lemongrass creme brulee or hand spun house made ice cream Price: $35 Gratuity & alcohol not included. Not valid with any other discount. Click here for online reservations! |
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In recent years, a small group of innovative bartenders has risen to the top shelf of cocktail culture. Working at stylish new bars - places without neon or velvet ropes, where connoisseurship replaces trendiness - they can be found crafting drinks that are equal parts heady libation and epicurean delight. On the following pages, meet fi ve experts who have elevated the cocktail to an art form, and in the process reinvented the way we drink. Lucy Brennan, Mixologist Mint and 820, Portland, Oregon Raising the Bar: A student of the classics (and by that we mean pre-Prohibition cocktails like the Tom Collins), Brennan searches for inspiration in vintage bartending books. Her updates include the Hot & Sour, a Whiskey Sour fired up with a spicy kiss of Tabasco. Star Turn: Brennan's unconventional use of produce (her signature drink is the Avocado Daiquiri) has put her on more than a few top bartender lists (Food & Wine, Bon Appétit, Playboy.com) and she recently released her first book, Hip Sips (Chronicle). Forewarned is Forearmed: Reservations are not required at the starkly lit, brick-walled 820 (adjacent to her restaurant, Mint), but expect a wait, as it's still the standard-bearer for Portland's cocktail renaissance. Take Away: "A cocktail should be balanced and complex but only have four or five ingredients," she says. She recommends experimenting with fruits or herbs. Click here to read the entire article! |
 Learn the tricks of the trade while taking a cocktail class with Lucy here at 820. The cocktail classes for 2008 have been announced! As of Janaury 2008 Lucy Brennan's cocktail classes will be held every last SATURDAY of the month @ 2:30pm-4:00pm unless a holiday falls on or around that date. Lucy will be adding more classes for 2008 + a few extra classes when Lucy can fit them in! Three of our very own cocktails are featured, try them all while learning how they're made! Accompanied by cheese plate appetizer, classes are $75 per person.
Gift certificates available! These are open to the public. Private classes are available for any occasion. Please contact us either by phone or email. |
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 SakeOne is proud to announce premium saketini recipes developed by nationally acclaimed mixologist Lucy Brennan owner of Portland, Oregon's Mint restaurant and 820 cocktail bar. Like sake itself, saketinis are about balance; perfect proportions that create pure joy for the palate. These recipes have been carefully crafted to pair well with food and stand alone as refreshingly distinct and pleasurable elixirs. Taste what occurs when the best mixologists and the finest sake come together. SakeOne was founded by a group of folks who simply loved sake and had a vision - to produce world-class sake in the United States. Although sake was traditionally made in Japan, they believed that premium ginjo sake could be produced in the United States. With water as one of sake's most critical ingredients, the east slope of Oregon's Coastal Mountains was identified as an ideal water source for its purity. And so Forest Grove, Oregon, became the home of SakeOne, producer of Momokawa and Moonstone, America's most honored sakes! Click here to view the recipes for these brand new saketinis! |
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